A good introduction to Rust language in a more superficial approach which results
in a very pleasant and easy reading, recommended even for those who are not experienced
with low level systems languages.

Rust packages are called Crates and are installed by Cargo explore them at http://crates.io

In Rust there is no class but Structs, Enums, Traits, functions and macros!

The Rust mascot (unofficial) is called Ferris and it is a crabhttp://www.rustacean.net/
(There is no record of the official reason about being a crab, the reasonable history is that it was inspired by the Rusty Crab
a common species of crab and also a name of a famous restaurant.)

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Glossary of terms

Term

Definition

crate

A rust distributable package

ferris

The unofficial Crab Mascot

Rustacean

The Rust programmer or evangelist or enthusiastic

nightly

The unstable toolchain of the Rust compiler

impl

Implementation

py2rs

From Python into Rust

let x = Rust::from("Python");

A quick reference guide for the Pythonista in process of becoming a Rustacean.